{"id":415,"date":"2016-03-18T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2016\/03\/18\/legal-trend-federal-appeals-court-affirms-dismissal-of-health-care-data-breach-suit\/"},"modified":"2016-03-18T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T19:30:00","slug":"legal-trend-federal-appeals-court-affirms-dismissal-of-health-care-data-breach-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/legal-trend-federal-appeals-court-affirms-dismissal-of-health-care-data-breach-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Trend: Federal Appeals Court Affirms Dismissal of Health Care Data Breach Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What happened that led to a lawsuit?<\/strong>\u00a0A health care network experienced a data breach, followed its internal protocols to handle the data breach.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did the plaintiff&#8217;s allege that the health care network didn&#8217;t do that caused them harm?<\/strong>\u00a0<span style=\"color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Heltica Neue', Helvetica, Arial;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">health network had violated the HITECH Act in protecting personal health information<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What did the courts say?<\/strong>\u00a0<span style=\"color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Heltica Neue', Helvetica, Arial;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">\u201cThere is no case law that suggests that an isolated privacy breach or discrete series of related breaches constitute a violation of the HITECH Act,\u201d\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/healthitsecurity.com\/images\/site\/attachments\/KetteringHealthNetworkdoc.pdf\" style=\"color:rgb(48,132,160);text-decoration:none;font-weight:600;font-family:'Heltica Neue', Helvetica, Arial;text-align:justify;\">states the district court opinion<\/a><span style=\"color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Heltica Neue', Helvetica, Arial;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">. \u201cMoreover, the Relator fails to allege that KHN failed to implement policies and procedures to address various security risks.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Heltica Neue', Helvetica, Arial;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\"><strong>What&#8217;s the take away?<\/strong>\u00a0When a health care provider follows data breach protocols to protect health records, following those steps shows protections for health records.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/healthitsecurity.com\/news\/us-appeals-court-affirms-fca-healthcare-data-breach-case\"><span style=\"color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Heltica Neue', Helvetica, Arial;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">Health IT Security |\u00a0<\/span>US Appeals Court Affirms FCA Healthcare Data Breach Case<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What happened that led to a lawsuit?<\/strong>\u00a0A health care network experienced a data breach, followed its internal protocols to handle the data breach.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did the plaintiff&#8217;s allege that the health care network didn&#8217;t do that caused them harm?<\/strong>\u00a0<span style=\"color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Heltica Neue', Helvetica, Arial;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">health network had violated the HITECH Act in protecting personal health information<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What did the courts say?<\/strong>\u00a0<span style=\"color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Heltica Neue', Helvetica, Arial;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">\u201cThere is no case law that suggests that an isolated privacy breach or discrete series of related breaches constitute a violation of 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